OIC Watch

OIC, Saudi University Pact Seeks Global Education on Islam

March 14, 2018

The recently inked memorandum of cooperation between the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) and Saudi Arabia's Islamic University seeks to shape international higher education on Islam by focusing on grants and Arabic language training to universities worldwide to "combat deviant thought, extremism, and Islamophobia."
OIC: Ghouta Killings Are a Violation of Islamic Teachings

March 05, 2018

The Independent Permanent Human Rights Commission of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) issued an official statement deploring the targeting of non-combatant civilians as “a gross transgression of Islamic teachings,” calling on the UN to broker an immediate ceasefire and multi-stakeholder peace in Syria.
OIC Demands Religious Freedom for South Asian Muslims

March 05, 2018

The Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) is active in advocating for Muslim communities in South Asia, expressing concerns over the religious-freedom rights for Muslims in Sri Lanka and sending a multilateral delegation to Thailand to evaluate the impact of security measures and economic development initiatives on Muslims in that country.
OIC Promotes Integration of Islamic Tourism Markets

February 05, 2018

The Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) continues to push all aspects of economic and social integration of its 57 member-states through the tourism sector, as Tourism Ministers from the global Islamic entity met in Bangladesh to evaluate regional integration through tourism strategies.
OIC Condemns Attack on British NGO in Afghanistan

January 29, 2018

The Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) issued an official statement condemning this week's attack in Afghanistan, for which local Islamic State affiliates claimed responsibility, against the offices of the British nongovernmental organization Save the Children as a "heinous act that runs contrary to the sanctity of human lives and humanity."
OIC Members Call for "WMD-Free" Middle East

January 24, 2018

At its annual meeting, the Parliamentary Union of members-states of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) passed a resolution to make the Middle East a weapons-of-mass-destruction-free-zone, while also condemning Israel's "continuous growth" in nuclear capabilities as a threat to regional stability.
Iran Pushes to Lead OIC United Front on Jerusalem

January 19, 2018

The government of the Islamic Republic of Iran is exerting strong pressure at the summit of the Parliamentary Union of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) for the 57 member-states to unify behind Iran’s Islamist regime in making the issue of Palestine a core OIC cause and in taking “retrospective” measures to punish the US and its allies regarding the status of Jerusalem.
Representative at OIC Meeting Floats Idea of Phasing out Dollar

January 17, 2018

At a summit of the Parliamentary Union of the 57 member-state Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), a representative floated the idea that member-states should phase out the US dollar from the economies of “Muslim countries” as a means of economically punishing America.
OIC Partners with Afreximbank to Expand Sharia Finance

January 02, 2018

The Islamic Corporation for the Development of the Private Sector, an arm of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), is teaming up with the African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) to provide $100 million in sharia-compliant/compatible financing for trade and small and medium-sized businesses across Africa.
OIC Rhetoric on Jerusalem Concedes Israeli Rights

December 20, 2017

Behind the hard-line Islamist rhetoric at last week’s Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) emergency summit on Jerusalem was a significant concession that West Jerusalem is an Israeli territory and a focus on East Jerusalem as the capital of an independent Palestinian state that the bloc views as an entirely Muslim entity that de facto excludes Palestinian Christians.